Care
for
a
more
innovative
desktop?Tim
O’Bryan
and
company
over
in
our
Innovation
Center
for
Performance
Management
just
launched
a
widget.
If
this
is
the
first
you’ve
heard
of
it,
you’re
in
pretty
exclusive
company
–
it’s
fresh
out
of
beta
testing
and
ready
for
some
real-world
rigor.
Tim's
asked
... Read more

Sorry,
folks.
Turns
out
Jacqueline
Coolidge
was
busier
than
expected
down
at
TDWI,
so
we
weren’t
able
to
provide
live
updates
from
the
floor.
Still,
that
doesn’t
mean
you’ve
missed
out
on
all
the
goodness
if
you
weren’t
able
to
make
it.
Here’s
a
quick
recap:In
a
panel
discussion
on
... Read more

“In
business,
you
set
goals
for
your
team,
and
you
hold
them
accountable
to
those
goals,”
If
you
don't
achieve
what
you
set
out
to
accomplish
in
terms
of
performance,
then
you
ask
tough
questions
to
find
out
what
went
wrong."
Sound
familiar?Chris
Rudge,
CEO
of
the
Canadian
Olympic
Committee,
... Read more

If
you're
(a)
in
a
small
or
midsize
company
and
(b)
evaluating,
embarking
on,
or
expanding
your
business
intelligence
or
planning
software,
why
not
spend
some
time
at
our
upcoming
Midsize
Business
Analytics
Virtual
Summit?Our
March
11
event
will
be
the
first
in
a
series
of
quarterly
interactive
forums
... Read more

If
you
couldn't
make
it
to
one
of
our
live
events,
never
fear.
You
can
still
see
all
the
latest
capabilities
of
IBM
Cognos
software
through
our
Virtual
Performance
event.
It's
the
same
great
content
from
our
global
roadshow,
only
this
time
it
comes
to
you.
Briefly,
the
day
... Read more

If
you're
heading
down
to
Vegas
next
week
for
the TDWI
World
Winter
Conference,
why
not
stop
by
booth
301
and
visit
with
a
few
excellent
IBMers
such
as Jacqueline
Coolidge and Mark
Morton?
They'll
be
on-hand
and
on-stage
in
various
capacities
and
would
love
to
chat
with
you
about
our
new
products
and
... Read more

If
you've
been
following
my
tweets
then
you
probably
know
about
Howard
Dresner's
new "Wisdom
of
Crowds"
survey
of
BI
Vendors.
He's
gone
directly
to
the
Twitterverse
for
input
into
users'
opinions
on
their
business
intelligence
applications.
He's
received enough
early
responses
for
some
preliminary
findings,
but
he's
going
to
need
more
... Read more

There
are
a
lot
of
unpleasant
consequences
that
can
come
of
not
having
the
right
answer.
Now
we
can
add
instant,
international
embarrassment
to
that
list.Sven
Kramer,
the
gold
medal-winning
speed
skater
from
The
Netherlands,
wasn't
too
pleased
when
a
reporter
from
NBC
asked
him
to
state
his
name,
country
... Read more

"The
only
thing
worse
than
being
talked
about
is
not
being
talked
about"
~
Oscar
WildeThere's
been
no
shortage
of
talk
about
Canada
and
Canadians
over
the
past
week,
what
with
the
world's
best
winter
athletes
gathering
in
Vancouver
to
compete
and
all.
Most
of
the
chatter
has
been
in
... Read more

Few
things
are
better
for
a
blog
than
an
Olympic
long
weekend.
For
the
past
three
days
I've
been
watching
and
writing,
watching
and
writing
about
the
links
between
the
Winter
games
and
performance
management.
(Get
ready,
this
is
but
the
first
in
a
series
of
Olympics-themed
posts)Of
course
there's
... Read more

Predictive
Analytics help
decision
makers
answer
perhaps
the
most
pressing
question
in
business:
What's
going
to
happen?One
question
they
can't
answer,
though,
is
this:
Who
will
light
the
Olympic
Cauldron
to
open
the
2010
Winter
Olympics
in
Vancouver?When
the
Olympic
Torch
arrives
in
BC
Place
in
Vancouver
mere
hours
from
now,
... Read more

I'm
a
little
late
on
the
uptake
on
this
one,
but
data
visualization
expert,
author
and
educator
Stephen
Few
is
once
again
running
his
Visual
Business
Intelligence
Workshops
in
Austin,
Boston,
London
and
a
few
other
cities
throughout
2010.
Stephen's
a
passionate
and
articulate
advocate
for
increasing
the
clarity
and
... Read more

I've
been
writing
about
business
intelligence
and
performance
management
in
one
form
or
another
for
eight
years
now,
While
I
think
that
provides
me
some
degree
of
expertise
in
explaining
core
concepts
in
an
acceptable
level
of
detail,
I
sometimes
run
the
risk
of
glossing
over
them
in
my
writing
... Read more

The
big
game
may
be
over,
but
for
Super
Bowl
advertisers,
the
work
is
only
just
beginning.With
online
activities
an
increasingly
important
component
of
their
campaigns,
viewers'
responses
to
the
latest
from
Dockers,
Doritos
and
Dr.
Pepper
will
no
doubt
fuel
important
marketing
decisions
throughout
the
year.
Sentiment
analysis
-
the
measure
of
... Read more

Mashups,
collaboration
and
unstructured
data
are
moving
to
the
forefront
of
business
decision-making.
So
we've
taken
a
look
at
them,
too,
in
the
newest
episode
of
BI
Radio.
Here's
a
glimpse
of
what
you'll
learn:Defning
Enterprise
2.0:
An
interview
with
Colin
WhiteIn
our
first
segment,
IBM
product
manager
Jennifer
Hanniman
... Read more

James
Cameron:
Director.
Screenwriter.
Self-proclaimed
“King
of
the
World.”And
now...business
prof?Let
me
explain.By
most
accounts,
Avatar,
Cameron's
now
two-billion-dollar,
three-dimensional
space
fantasy
15
years
in
the
making,
will
take
home
the
Na'vi's
share
of
statuettes,
including
Best
Picture.
I
suspect
many
film
fans
will
lament
this.
Yes,
the
dialogue
was
... Read more

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